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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 26, 1940
Page
7
A New York Tribune story notes Britons may live in windowless, bombproof rooms if the war lasts another year. Royal Institute of British Architects hosts an exhibition with prize drawings of stealthy, air raid safe estates where none of the rooms have windows and bedrooms double as shelters amid flying glass danger.
A Salada Tea contest awards a $10 prize at each Ontario match for best plowed land using horses. Champions from all ranches enter a special event at the International with a $10,000 top prize. The first two win gold and silver medals plus a spring trip, with twelve cash prizes ranging from $25 to $5.00.
Canada’s 1939 birth registrations total 229 063, slightly below 1988 and above 1987, with 1931–35 average at 228 352. Marriages jump to 103 608 from 88 438 the prior year, versus the 68 596 1931–35 average.
A French factory owner faced ruin and began making quill toothpicks, pivoting from steel pens to build a fortune. The operation produced millions of toothpicks per car and supplied Hotels of the Canadian National Railway System.
Dean E Newton finds a snapping turtle initialed S. N. 1910 on its shell, the same animal his brother Sidney Newton marked decades ago while they picked strawberries in Lanesboro Massachusetts. The turtle reappeared along a farm brook in Syracuse during a visit by Sidney.
A columnist answers common etiquette questions regarding letter writing by husbands and wives, reference checks, wedding introductions, honeymoon secrecy, guest conversation balance, and servant addressing. The guidance emphasizes personal responsibility and respectful communication.
A list of domestic advice covers cleaning a bath sponge with lemon and hot water, whitening a dull carpet with a ammonia or vinegar solution, preserving cheese from molding by wrapping in vinegared cloth, and removing wood match scratches with lemon.
Instructions advise boiling a used cork to reseal a bottle and reinsert it. For mice, apply peppermint oil on cotton wads around their haunts to deter them and drive them away.
The Carnegie Institute of Technology unveiled a Ten process turning grass leaves seaweed wood molasses and cornstalks into coal or oil using heat and pressure with limestone. Langmuir described dry water as water that remains moistureless on its surface, a curious chemical property.
Four new chemical miracles are unveiled: antiseptic wall paint containing chlorine or iodine, a promising explosive based on butadiene and ozone, electric weaving, and the first step toward synthetic quinine from oil wells. The antiseptic paint results from thousands of experiments, and the explosive from Syracuse University is highly sensitive with power not yet measured.
The all inclusive Canadian National Railways System posted gross revenues of 4 888 627 dollars for the week ending September 14 1940, versus 5 308 350 dollars for the same period in 1939, a drop of 419 723 dollars or 8 percent.
A string of short comic anecdotes on gullible buyers and stubborn misunderstandings. A bird seller defends a canary as a grand singer. A boy lies about Sunday school. A hunter boasts of trophies from pajamas. Horace Greeley’s unreadable handwriting prompts jokes about deciphering notes.
Mrs. Joseph C. Thomson of Peoria Illinois describes child rearing in line with medical advice. Her daughter Joan Carole three, tied for first in the Better Babies Conference at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield with the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Wilbur Henry Gillespie.
The piece explains that in Para Brazil people use rain showers to time events, with phrases like after the third or fifth shower. In Hawaii similar localized rain showers influence daily actions as people pause until the rain passes.
Investigator A C Martindale questioned a 23 year old burglary suspect in Houston. The suspect admitted taking a bite from a lemon pie in the ice box. When asked why he did not eat more, he said he did not like the pie. The housewife defended her baking saying she makes the best pies in the neighborhood.
Earthworms can move through tough soil and have been observed tunneling through brick walls and concrete. The ability suggests remarkable subterranean resilience and adaptability in challenging environments.
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